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The description and use of a portable instrument, vlugarly [sic] known by the name of Gunters quadrant : by which is perform'd most propositions in astronomy, as the altitude, azimuth, right ascention, and declination of the sun, &c. : also his rising, and setting and amplitude, together with the hour of the day or night, and other conclusions exemplified at large : to which is added the use of Nepiars bones in multiplication, division, and extraction of roots, also the nocturnal, the ring dial, and Gunters-line, in many necessary and delightful conclusions, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacity : collected and digested into this portable volumn, for the use of young practitioners / by a true lover of the mathematicks.

The art of numbring by speaking-rods: vulgarly termed Nepeirs bones : by which the most difficult parts of arithmetick, as multiplication, division, and extracting of roots both square and cube, are performed with incredible celerity and exactness (without any charge to the memory) by addition and substraction only / Published by W.L.